Remains of the Day: Inside job

Marketplace goes into a Foxconn factory, a judge lets Apple tag into the Lodsys case, and I hope you have some 5.25-inch floppy disk to put into this Mac prototype. The remainders for Thursday, April 12, 2012 are inside out.

Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz, the man who uncovered Mike Daisey’s fraud, takes a walk through a Foxconn factory to see an iPad being made. Sadly, it looks like the best game the factory workers get to play on the iPad is “flashing color bar screen test.”

At least some iBooks publishers—and possibly all—appear to now be getting discounts on Mac hardware via Apple’s online store. So far, the same discounts don’t appear to be available to App Store developers, which clearly means that Apple agrees with your mom and that you should spend less time playing video games and more time reading.

Got $100,000 to burn? One anonymous vendor is selling off a rare prototype of the original Macintosh, which features an internal 5.25-inch floppy drive.

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